Asaf
A Hebrew name meaning "gatherer" or "collector". Barely 220 men in Poland carry it and all are men: rare enough that most Poles will never meet one.
Asaf Pronunciation
Asaf is pronounced AH-sahf (/ˈasaf/).
What Asaf means
Where Asaf comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Asaf comes from Hebrew, where it means gatherer, or collector. The root points to the act of bringing things together, and the name reads as one who gathers.
In the Hebrew Bible, Asaph was a Levite whom King David appointed to lead the temple singers. Twelve psalms carry his name in their headings, including Psalm 50 and the run from Psalm 73 to Psalm 83. The sons of Asaph kept up his work as musicians for generations after him. A name meaning collector attached itself to a man who gathered voices into song.
Among Jewish families the name stayed in use, and it travels easily across languages. In Poland it turns up rarely, and a teacher reading a class register might pause over it once.
The name has no Polish diminutive of its own, no softened school-yard form. It stands as Asaf. What it holds is the plain Hebrew sense, zbieracz, the gatherer.
When Asaf celebrates name day
Asaf appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 1 May.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Asaf
1 in 96154 men in Poland is named Asaf. 222 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2087 among male names.
Asaf as a middle name
Asaf is a first name for 222 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 93/7 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2190th, between Arshad (17) and Ashokkumar (17).
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#2188 Antonov17
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#2189 Arshad17
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#2190 Asaf17
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#2191 Ashokkumar17
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#2192 Basil17